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=[|12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015, 25.-28.8.]=

**Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination**
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 * [|Call for Papers]
 * [|Registration]
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News
Thanks to all who voted for our colleague Eleni Nina Pazarzi and thus contributed to her election for a member of the ESA Executive Committee 2015-2017. Full results you can see at @http://www.europeansociology.org/docs/nominations/Elections_results_2015.pdf

Dear ISA RC10 members,

We are extremely pleased to inform you that our colleague and RC10 Board member //Eleni Nina-Pazarzi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Piraeus, ////was elected to // the ESA Executive Committee (2015-2017). We wish Eleni all the best!

ISA RC1 Board

Dear ISA RC10 members and friends who are as well ESA members, Our colleague //Eleni Nina-Pazarzi,// //Professor of Sociology, University of Piraeus// //tel: 0030210414219000302104142190, mob: 0030693673370200306936733702 email: enina04@yahoo.gr ,,// link:www.ode.unipi.gr, is a candidate for ESA executive committee. Let us support our energetic and capable colleague during the ESA elections 2015! []

[|Registration Opens on Tuesday]
21.8.2015 To avoid crowds and pick up free public transport pass we reccommend participants to come to the registration desk at Faculty of Architecture (FA), 1st floor, on Tuesday 25 August. It will be open from 12:00 to 19:00. The transport pass is valid from Tuesday 25 to Friday 28 and can be used on any type of public transportation. Please note that it is possible to enter the Opening Ceremony without registration, however registration can be completed only at the Faculty. [|More ...]

[|Full Programme Book for Download]
14.8.2015 The Programme Book with all RN/RN sessions is now available for download. Each participant will also receive a usb key with digital version of the Programme Book in the conference bag. Those who have ordered the printed Programme Book will pick it up at the same desk where the conference bag/kit will be delivered. [|More ...]

[|Location guide]
13.8.2015 Maps of the conference buildings and other practical information in one small book! This brouchure will be included in your conference bag (together with a map of Prague), but feel free to download this PDF. [|More ...]

[|Pocket Programme Book Available for Download]
7.8.2015 The conference Programme Book/Pocket Version is completed and available for download. Printed will be ready in your conference bags/kits. Inside you can find: general info about conference venues, locations of the rooms, programme of plenaries (opening, closing), semi-plenaries, mid-day specials, useful info for foreign visitors and much more. The full programme of RN/RS sessions will be uploaded soon.

[|Call for Papers now open!!!]
8.12.2014 Call for Papers has already started! [|Více ...]
 * Call for Papers/Posters/Applications for Grants**

A profound challenge that the social sciences, and sociology in particular, are now called upon to confront has to do with the depth and extraordinary acceleration of global processes of social and cultural change. Today's byword 'globalisation' only partially captures the full significance of these processes. Sociological knowledge therefore encounters a limitation: it is easier to see what is disappearing than what is coming into being. Yet this limitation can be overturned and become a resource: a stimulus to intensify our theoretical and empirical exploration of the world around us by relating everyday life to history, connecting individual experiences to major issues of democracy and justice, and viewing the exercise of agency in the light of processes of domination. Sociological imagination is the tool that our discipline has honed over the decades to accomplish this. But what are the major issues that the global sociological community now has the responsibility to tackle? First and foremost, they arise from the exponential increase in social inequalities, a process that the international economic crisis has exacerbated beyond measure. This situation threatens the very existence of democracy and calls for the construction of forms of social analysis which are strongly connected to the arena of public policy. Concurrently, these forms of analysis must also be capable of offering communities and individuals knowledge and insight that can help to stem the tide of fatalism and apathy. Yet an analysis of how inequalities are produced and reinforced would be incomplete without reflection on differences. Recognising and acknowledging the multiple expressions of difference – such as gender, social class, age, ethnic background, religion, and sexual orientation... - are vital when it comes to gaining insight into the ‘multiple positioning’ that characterises contemporary individuals. And this entails rethinking the meaning of integration today. The ESA’s next conference, in Prague from 25 to 28 August 2015, is an invitation to engage with these fields of inquiry. We live in an era in which new forms of domination call for a reframing of the questions sociology has tackled since it came into being. We need to work together to examine the intricate interweave of social, cultural, economic and political dynamics contained in the processes of change occurring in the twenty-first century. We need to renew our sociological imagination. The Prague conference aims to offer fertile terrain for this call to understanding and action.
 * 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015, Prague, Czech Republic****, 25 - 28 August 2015**
 * 'Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination'**


 * [|RN1 - Ageing in Europe]
 * [|RN2 - Sociology of the Arts]
 * [|RN2 PhD-Student Research Award]
 * [|RN3 - Biographical Perspectives on European Societies]
 * [|RN4 - Sociology of Children and Childhood]
 * [|RN5 - Sociology of Consumption]
 * [|RN6 - Critical Political Economy]
 * [|RN7 - Sociology of Culture]
 * [|RN8 - Disaster, Conflict and Social Crisis]
 * [|RN9 - Economic Sociology]
 * [|RN10 - Sociology of Education]
 * [|RN11 - Sociology of Emotions]
 * [|RN12 - Environment and Society]
 * [|RN13 - Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives]
 * [|RN14 - Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State]
 * [|RN15 - Global, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Sociology]
 * [|RN16 - Sociology of Health and Illness]
 * [|RN17 - Work, Employment and Industrial Relations]
 * [|RN18 - Sociology of Communications and Media Research]
 * [|RN19 - Sociology of Professions]
 * [|RN20 - Qualitative Methods]
 * [|RN21 - Quantitative Methods]
 * [|RN22 - Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty]
 * [|RN23 - Sexuality]
 * [|RN24 - Science and Technology]
 * [|RN25 - Social Movements]
 * [|RN26 - Sociology of Social Policy]
 * [|RN27 - Regional Network on Southern European Societies]
 * [|RN28 - Society and Sports]
 * [|RN29 - Social Theory]
 * [|RN30 - Youth and Generation]
 * [|RN31 - Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism]
 * [|RN32 - Political Sociology]
 * [|RN33 - Women's and Gender Studies]
 * [|RN34 - Sociology of Religion]
 * [|RN35 - Sociology of Migration]
 * [|RN36 - Sociology of Transformations: East and West]
 * [|RN37 - Urban Sociology]


 * Abstract submissions are invited on the conference topics ([|37 Research Networks] and [|7 Research Streams]) and should be [|submitted using online application Conftool] by 15 February 2015.**

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Hope to see you in Prague.

Yours sincerely, code format="moz-signature" -- Local organizer of the 12th ESA Conference Institute of Sociology, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic Jilska 1, Praha 1, 110 00, Czech Republic esa@soc.cas.cz

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[|Conference Fee]
25.11.2014 Information on conference fees is now available in the //Registration// section. [|Více ...]

Welcome
Welcome to the webpage of ESA 2015! We are very pleased to invite you to take part in the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015, which will be held in Prague from Tuesday 25th August to Friday 28th August. The theme for the conference is 'Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination'. The conference will be held under the auspices of the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prof. Jiří Drahoš. Take advantage of this opportunity and come visit the heart of Europe! //The European Sociological Association (ESA) has chosen Prague as the next city to host the 12th ESA conference. **The main theme this year is ‘Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination’**.//